|
Каспинфо апрель 1999 |
|
Название: Короткие сообщения Главные Пункты: * список международных экологических организаций, работающих по нефтяным проблемам (на англ). * Заявление Астраханская ассоциация #Зеленый мир# к конференции в Баку * Письмо ряда НПО к руководству Европейского банка реконструкции и развития по поводу строительства транскавказкого нефтепровода (на англ) (23.04.1999) Полный Текст Короткие сообщения American Petroleum Institute - API www.api.org API members includes over 300 companies involved in all aspects of the oil and natural gas industry. API annually publishes "The Petroleum Industry Environmental Performance Report," focusing on the activity of oil companies on US territory. CEE Bankwatch Network www.geo.ut.ee/bankwatch/index.html CEE Bankwatch Network includes 10 NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe. The network was formally set up in 1995 and its main tasks are to monitor activities of the International Finance Institutions (IFIs) in the CEE region and put forward more sustainable alternatives. It has established three special working groups that are concentrating on issues of transport, energy and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy - CEPMLP www.dundee.ac.uk/cepmlp.html The CEPMLP is the world's leading and Europe's largest institution in this field. In recognition of the importance of providing relevant and current information to the international natural resource industries as well as related companies and institutions, the CEPMLP offers access to a large collection of materials relating to subjects such as energy, environment, petroleum and mineral law, access to an extensive collection of laws from countries around the world, and other information resources. Some of the information can cost quite a bit to obtain. Corporate Europe Observatory - CEO www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/ CEO is a small Amsterdam-based nonprofit organization set up to monitor and report on the political activities of European corporations and their lobby groups. CEO publishes a quarterly newsletter - the Corporate Europe Observer - as well as briefings on various issues. Corporate Watch www.corpwatch.org Corporate Watch is a web site dedicated to helping build greater democratic control over transnational corporations at the local, national and international levels. Corporate Watch is designed to provide every day Internet users, activists, journalists and policy makers with an array of tools that can be used to investigate and analyze corporate activity. They are committed to exposing corporate greed by documenting the social, political, economic and environmental impacts of these transnational giants. The DataCenter www.igc.apc.org/datacenter/ The DataCenter is an independent nonprofit research center providing information to activists working for progressive social change. Staff collects, organizes and retrieves information on political, social and economic issues. Services include a public interest library, a customized research service and several publications. The Data Center has been collecting corporate data and providing strategic company research to activists for the past 19 years. Environmental Research Foundation -ERF www.monitor.net/rachel The ERF was founded in 1980 to provide understandable, scientific information about the impacts of toxic substances on human health and the environment. ERF provides information to grassroots environmentalists and journalist, specializing in hazardous substances and hazardous technologies. Environment Background Information Center - EBIC www.enviroweb.org/ebic/index.html EBIC is a nonprofit organization that provides corporate research and strategic assistance to members of the public who are interested in getting involved in local environmental issues. Friends of the Earth www.foe.org FOE is an international, nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment - and their lives. FOE has a corporate accountability campaign. Greenpeace UK www.greenpeace.org~uk Greenpeace calls on governments and industry to accept that the 1997 Kyoto climate accord marks the beginning of the end for fossil fuels and gives an urgent call for investment in renewable energy. Hydrocarbons Online www.hydrocarbononline.com Hydrocarbons Online was formed to become the preeminent source for product, technology, regulatory, and management information for industries. Hydrocarbon Online markets can best be defined as serving the needs of engineers, managers, government personnel, and consulting firms involved in hydrocarbon and petrochemical processing. MDB Energy Project www.bothends.org/mdb/index.html MDB Energy Project is an international network of NGOs working to reorient the energy sector investments of the multilateral development banks (MDBs) towards sustainable energy. Multinational Monitor - Multinationals Resource Center - MRC www.essential.org/monitor The Multinational Monitor is a monthly publication that tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. MRC is designed to help activists, journalists, academics and others who need information on the activities of corporations operating in their communities. MRC provides information on topics such as company history, environmental and workplace hazards associated with various production processes, health and environmental problems associated with products. Oilwatch www.ecuanex.apc.org/oilwatch/ Oilwatch is a resistance network against oil activity in tropical countries. Its objectives are to facilitate the exchange of information on oil companies that operate in tropical countries, their background, operating practices and social and environmental impacts. Oilwatch also informs on technical and legal aspects in order to coordinate international campaigns against specific countries. Pacific Environment and Resources Center www.pacenv.org PERC protects endangered ecosystems around the Pacific Rim through grassroots advocacy, environmental education, and law and policy analysis. Project Underground www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground Project Underground works to expose corporate human rights and environmental abuses; and in support of communities threatened by the mining and oil industries. Their web site is a great starting place for research on corporate research of the mining and oil industries. Public Information Network - PIN www.endgame.org PIN is dedicated to worldwide exchange of information on the environment, economics an human rights. PIN provides research and technical assistance to communities working to hold corporations and governments accountable. The organization maintains several databases on the environmental and social impacts of transnational corporations and development agencies, as well as how to investigate corporations. Sustainable Energy and Economy Network - SEEN www.seen.org SEEN, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Transnational Institute, works in partnership with citizens groups globally on environment and development issues with a particular focus on climate change, energy, gender equity and economic issues. SEEN provides information on investments made by international finance institutions and government agencies in developing countries an economies in transitions as well as in economically disadvantaged regions of the US. Transnational Institute - TNI www.worldcom.nl/tni Founded in 1973, TNI is an international network of activist-scholars working to analyze and find viable solutions to such global problems as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalization, social injustice and environmental degradation. Transparency International - TI www.transparency.de/ TI is an NGO dedicated to increasing government accountability and curbing bother international and national corruption. World Business Council for Sustainable Development - WBCSD www.wbcsd.ch WBCSD is a coalition of 125 international companies with a shared commitment to the environment and to the principles of economic growth and sustainable development. WBCSD aims to develop closer cooperation between business, government and all other organizations concerned with the environment and sustainable development. Worldwatch Institute www.worldwatch.org/worldwatch Worldwatch is a nonprofit public policy research organization dedicated to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental support systems. Астраханская ассоциация ЪЗеленый мирЪ просит включить в итоговый документ конференции в г .Баку (20-23 апреля 1999 г.) следующие пункты наших требований: 1. Масштабы эксплуатации нефтегазовых месторождений Каспийского моря не должны превышать допустимую хозяйственную емкость Каспийского моря. Уже сегодня масштабы добычи нефти и газа должны быть уменьшены. 2. На ближайшие 50 лет следует воздержаться от разведки и добычи нефти и газа в Северном Каспии и не повышать уровень добычи минерального топлива в Среднем Каспии. 3. Необходимо подтвердить статус заповедной зоны Северного Каспия с дельтами рек Волга и Урал, а также Волго-Ахтубинской поймы, с допущением в этой зоне развития только рыбного хозяйства и водного транспорта. Mr. Jucker, We write to express our serious concerns about the EBRD's implementation and enforcement of environmental safeguards on its Chirag oil project, stretching from the Caspian Sea, across the Caucuses and to the Black Sea. The controversial and complex Chirag project is the first of its kind in the region to be supported by international public finance institutions, and EBRD has termed it a model for future investment in the region. Consequently, non-governmental environmental organizations (NGOs) are alarmed to hear reports of tanker loading spills at the project's Supsa terminal, which, depending on their extent, could potentially threaten environmentally sensitive areas in this region of the Black Sea. Ironically, these spills reportedly occurred just a few days before an official celebration of the completion of the project in Georgia. Even more alarming, NGOs understand that these spills reportedly occurred in the absence of an approved Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chirag project. According to project documentation, EBRD required that an adequate Chirag OSRP must be completed and approved prior to the first oil entering the pipeline. Despite jubilant celebrations by bank officials and oil barons on the pumping of first oil in the pipeline, this OSRP has not been even been completed, much less approved or made publicly available. We believe this to be a breach of EBRD's policies and its contract with project sponsors, both reckless and serious offenses. NGOs repeatedly expressed their concerns to EBRD during the development of the Chirag project when the Bank acted to weaken environmental protection in the region by promoting environmental standards that are less adequate than those currently in place. EBRD's apparent unwillingness to now enforce even these lax requirements will violate its founders' directive to "promote in the full range of its activities environmentally sound and sustainable development," and it will cost the Bank dearly in terms of public credibility. This sends a terrible message that the Bank can easily be bullied by project sponsors that seek to avoid environmental compliance. As a result, EBRD's lack of self discipline threatens the priceless environment of the Caspian and Black Sea, and the Caucuses. NGOs strongly insist that EBRD immediately review its contractual and policy obligations for environmental safeguards on the Chirag project. More specifically, NGOs insist that EBRD: 1) Publicly confirm that oil spills have occured at the Supsa tanker loading facility 2) Publicly declare project sponsors in breach of environmental provisions of their contract with the Bank 3) Foreclose on the loan and require expedited repayment to the Bank 4) Inform NGOs and other interested parties of the legal status of EBRD's contract with project sponsors. 5) Make current and future Chirag OSRP documentation available to public NGOs, to those in the host countries. We look forward to response to this serious matter, Sincerely, ##### Letter to the Board of Executive Directors Dear Ladies and Gentlmen We write to express our serious concerns about the EBRD's implementation and enforcement of environmental safeguards on its Chirag oil project, stretching from the Caspian Sea, across the Caucuses and to the Black Sea. The controversial and complex Chirag project is the first of its kind in the region to be supported by international public finance institutions, and EBRD has termed it a model for future investment in the region. Consequently, non-governmental environmental organizations (NGOs) are alarmed to hear reports of tanker loading spills at the project's Supsa terminal, which, depending on their extent, could potentially threaten environmentally sensitive areas in this region of the Black Sea. Ironically, these spills reportedly occurred just a few days before an official celebration of the completion of the project in Georgia. Even more alarming, NGOs understand that these spills reportedly occurred in the absence of an approved Oil Spill Response Plan (OSRP) for the Chirag project. According to project documentation, EBRD required that an adequate Chirag OSRP must be completed and approved prior to the first oil entering the pipeline. Despite jubilant celebrations by bank officials and oil barons on the pumping of first oil in the pipeline, this OSRP has not been even been completed, much less approved or made publicly available. We believe this to be a breach of EBRD's policies and its contract with project sponsors, both reckless and serious offenses. NGOs repeatedly expressed their concerns to EBRD during the development of the Chirag project when the Bank acted to weaken environmental protection in the region by promoting environmental standards that are less adequate than those currently in place. EBRD's apparent unwillingness to now enforce even these lax requirements will violate its founders' directive to "promote in the full range of its activities environmentally sound and sustainable development," and it will cost the Bank dearly in terms of public credibility. This sends a terrible message that the Bank can easily be bullied by project sponsors that seek to avoid environmental compliance. As a result, EBRD's lack of self discipline threatens the priceless environment of the Caspian and Black Sea, and the Caucuses. NGOs strongly insist that EBRD immediately review its contractual and policy obligations for environmental safeguards on the Chirag project. More specifically, NGOs insist that EBRD: 1) Publicly confirm that oil spills have occured at the Supsa tanker loading facility 2) Publicly declare project sponsors in breach of environmental provisions of their contract with the Bank 3) Foreclose on the loan and require expedited repayment to the Bank 4) Inform NGOs and other interested parties of the legal status of EBRD's contract with project sponsors. 5) Make current and future Chirag OSRP documentation available to public NGOs, to those in the host countries. We look forward to response to this serious matter, Sincerely, Manana Kochladze The Greens Movement of Georgia/FOE Georgia Douglas Norlen Pacific Environmental Resource Center, USA Elchin Sultanov Orintology Society of Azerbaijan Faride Guseinova Greens Movement of Azerbaijan lidia Kuli-Zade Democracy Development Foundation "Intibakh", Azerbaijan Aleksei Klushin Astrakhan Association "Green World" Russia Evgeni Vilkov Scientific-Orintology Association of Pupils "Berkut", Russia Natalia Barankiva "SakhalinWatch", Russia Olmokhova Olga Center for Ecology and Culture "Pink Lotos", Astrakhan, Russia Kakhaber Tamarashvili EkoBiomonitoring, Georgia Aleksandr Bukhnikashvili Ecoclub "Campester", Georgia David Tsiskarishvili Environment Protection Regional Foundation, Georgia Manana Devidze Ecology of Caucasus, Georgia Otar Sichinava Ecocenter for Protection for Environment of Georgia. Andrey Aranbaev EcoClub CATENA, Turkmenistan Gain Khudanazarov "Formatsia", Turkmenistan Tatiana Kostina "Green Woman" Kasakhstan Vladimir Karmanov Ecoclub "Biosphera", Kasakhstan Alia Rakisheva Centr "Markokol", Kasakhstan Sergei Solanik Ecological association " Green Survive", Kasakhstan Tlep BaiMagambetov Civic Movememnt "Pharasat", Kasakhstan Paul V. Horsman Greenpeace International Climate Campaign, London |